Defendants sentenced recently at York Magistrates Court

Scott Frankland, 33, of Denison Road, Pocklington, pleaded guilty to carrying a flick knife in public on Fulford Road, York, and possessing cocaine. He was given a 12-month community order with 200 hours’ unpaid work, fined £120 and ordered to pay £85 prosecution costs and a £114 statutory surcharge.

Carl Reddin, 51, of The Peasholme Centre, York, pleaded guilty to stealing gift items on three consecutive days from TG Jones in Coney Street, York, meat and cheese worth £39.85 and coffee worth £28.75 from Tesco’s Gillygate store and sweets worth £100 from Tesco’s Goodramgate store on two occasions. 

He was given a four-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months with six months’ drug rehabilitative treatment and banned from entering any Tesco Express, Marks and Spencer or TG Jones store within the York Outer Ring Road for 12 months and 25 days’ rehabilitative activities. He must pay £400 compensation.  

Wayne Ford-Jones, 46, of Jubilee Road, Norton, pleaded guilty to criminal damage to a door of the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, criminal damage to a police car, carrying an axe as an offensive weapon in public and attempted criminal damage to a police car.  He was jailed for nine months.

Luke Fletcher, 28, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to criminal damage to a vehicle in Clifton and assaulting a man in Shambles Market and was jailed for eight weeks and ordered to pay £100 compensation to the man.

Matthew Stephens, 24, of Towse Pasture, Bridlington, pleaded guilty to breaching a restraining order and was given an 18-month community order with six months’ alcohol treatment, a 26-day rehabilitative programme, 20 days’ rehabilitative activities and 120 hours’ unpaid work.